Donor question · Vaccinations
What's the best charity for childhood vaccinations?
What the independent evaluator that rates vaccination charities has published, with every figure linked to its source.
The short answer
New Incentives is a GiveWell Top Charity.
It's the only charity we track for vaccinations with an evaluator's top or promising rating.
New Incentives
Gives families in Northern Nigeria small cash incentives to complete their babies' routine vaccinations.
Evidence Exceptionally strong, rated by GiveWell
Modeled, not guaranteed. This is the evaluator's best estimate of the average, built from studies and assumptions. Your gift could do more or less. How to read these figures
If you can’t decide
GiveWell Top Charities Fund
Pools donations and grants them to GiveWell's Top Charities wherever GiveWell judges the money is needed most.
It covers all of GiveWell's recommended charities, not only those working on vaccinations.
What to weigh before you give
- Strength of evidence. Evaluators also rate how sure they are. It’s shown next to each charity above when they publish a rating.
- Whether more money helps now. Each charity’s profile shows the evaluator’s funding-gap figure when one is published.
- Estimates, not prices. Each figure is an average from the evaluator’s model. A modest gap between two estimates may not reflect a real difference.
Everything we track for vaccinations
The full picture, including the approaches that work and other organizations in this area: Vaccinations.
Questions donors ask
- What's the best charity for childhood vaccinations?
New Incentives is a GiveWell Top Charity. It's the only charity we track for vaccinations with an evaluator's top or promising rating. Each charity's page shows the figures, the source and how strong the evidence is.
- How do you choose which charities to list?
We list the charities that independent evaluators (GiveWell and the Happier Lives Institute) give their top or promising designation, in the same order as our cause pages. We don't re-score them, and no one can pay to appear or to move up.
- Why is only one charity listed?
Because it's the only charity we track for vaccinations that an evaluator has given its top or promising designation. We would rather list one well-evidenced option than pad the list.
- Should I give to one charity or a fund?
Both are reasonable. A fund run by an evaluator lets them direct your gift to where they judge the need is greatest; giving to one charity lets you choose the program yourself.
- Are these figures guaranteed?
No. They are modeled, not guaranteed: the evaluator's best estimate of the average, built from studies and assumptions. Your gift could do more or less.